Mixed paint



UNITED STATES LOUIS BROWN, OF RYE, NEW YORK.

MIXED PAINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,643, dated October 20, 1885.

Application flied Scptember a, 1884. cal-1 1:. 142,541. (Spcclmemal 1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Louis Baowx, of Rye, in the county of Westehester, in the State of New York, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in PaiutCompositions for and Process of Metal Coating for Wood and Other Articles, which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

I have discovered that the material known as sand-iron ore when properly treated can be combined with a suitable vehicle to form a composition which is noasmrwsi-vaaml l bodies, or both, are used, it would bedesim- 55 ble'to employ anywhere from thirty to seventy per cent. of the powdered sand-iron ore, although a smaller orlarger quantity might be used.

I have now described the essential features of my invention.

Of course any of the ordinary chemical col oring-matters may be used for coloring the composition, and any suitable drier may be employed.- The composition thus prepared is applied by .a brush, by rolls, by dipping, or in any other suitable mechanical way; and

hasgrea flrer d @Lt'ggtmlities. I would say that it can be used upon the x 5 This sand-iron "e in it natural state is gcusurface of wood, metal, iron, steel, paper,

erally found in l w 'ea, sand, or empast-eboard, stone, brick, pottery, textile fab- 7o cry, and is sep'u ...ed iere mm in a number of ways, which it is unnecessary to further describe here, as the various processes emloyed are matters of common knowledge. ile the sand-iron ore, after separation from the silica or emery or other substance with which it is naturally found, is in a comparatively fine state, it is not fine enough for use in the said composition, and I therefore pulverize it either by crushing it or by attritiou, and for this purpose I may use the machine kuown as Alsiugs Patent Pnlverizing-Cylinder. It is immaterial, however, what machine or process is used for reducing the sand-iron oreto the powdered state, and it is sufilcient to say that the finer or finer powdered it is the better or smoother the composition will be. This pulverized or 5 powered sand-iron ore forms the base of the composition. The carrying body can be of any of the well-known vehicles; and I would mention. among others, liggggd, fish, or other a mixture of soap, water and 40 nrpentine, or any solution of asphalt,

bitumen, tar, &c.

Of course it is not necessary that the entire body of the composition be of the comminuted sand-iron ore,and there may he used in 5 connection therewith any of the ordinary pigmeets or bases of the market-such as whiting, Paris white, ochers,&c.both for the purpose of filling and for the purpose of colorug; and the proportion of thepowdered sandiron ore to the remainder of the body may be varied to suit the requirement of the use to which the particular composition is to be ut, or the fancy ol the user.. I shonld'say, however, that when supplemental or coloring rics, &-c., to form a'layer, lacquer, or coating of non-corrosive iron, and the article upon which it is applied or used will be entirely protected from extraneous influences, and the coating will be very tenacious and coherent.

I am a'wareot the Patent No. 145,130, granted to Carl A. Sitzler, dated December 2, 1873, for an improvement in paint compounds, which describes as one of the ingredients of the paint composition pulverized metallic iron twenty parts; but I would say that I do not use what is known as metallic iron" in my composition, for such iron rapidly attracts oxygen from the atmosphere or from water, and forms red oxide of iron or iron rust, which is one of the things my paint is intended to prevent. 'lhc powdered sand-iron ore which I employ in my composition is not metallic iron, so known, but magnetic black oxide of iron, containing all the iron in fixed combination with oxygen; and in a non-corrodible condition; and I therefore consider that the Sitzlcr patent does not describe the essential features or elements of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desireto secure by Leltels latcut of the United States- A paint composition made of powdered sand-iron ore of the charneterhcrein specified, combined with whiting or other coloring or filling matter, as set forth, and a vehicle substantially as described.

' LOUIS BROWN. 

